Description: ...Ruth Moore, Maine author, lived and worked in Bass Harbor from 1947-1989...
File Attachment: Ruth Moore Bio 20210217.pdf …, NY Occupation: Private Secretary, Editor, New York, NY and Berkeley, CA Author 1943-1989 Childhood Home: Gotts Island, Tremont, ME Home: Bass Harbor …, Tremont, ME Summer Home: Same Winter Home: Same Death Date: 1989 Death Place: BarHarbor, ME Cemetery: Private internment Ruth Moore was born …Our thanks to Southwest Harbor Public Library for sharing this data entry template for use by The History Trust (Feb 2021). …The proceeds enabled Ruth and Eleanor to return to Maine, where they built their own home, with the help of Eleanor s father, in Bass Harbor.
Description: ...Architect and artist Andrew Hopewell Hepburn designed and built his summer cottage in Southwest Harbor, Maine...
File Attachment: Hepburn - Andrew Hopewell Hepburn Sr. (1880-1967).pdf …." - "BarHarbor Times," October 11, 1945 "It is with sincere sorrow that we learn of the death last week [June 1, 1948] of Mrs. Andrew E. …plans for spending the summer at their beautiful summer place at Clark Point and the news of her death came as a great shock to her friends here." - "Bar …Harbor Times," Thursday, June 10, 1948
Description: ...Bradley, on November 8, 1921 in Bass Harbor, Maine..."Southwest Harbor School Bus Driver Honored Oscar Seavey is one of the most respected citizens of Southwest Harbor...The citizens of Southwest Harbor adopted a second resolution which read, “that the town of Southwest Harbor at this time express its thanks and best wishes....”" – BarHarbor Times, March 12, 1959...
Description: ...Lura Belle (Haynes) Dolliver died on September 17, 1966 in BarHarbor, Maine..."Dudley Dolliver's house was formerly a store which he has remodeled into a dwelling, buying it about 1900." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor...
Description: ...Brown was born on March 16, 1868 to Amos Sheldon and Leoniece Leighton (Tracy) Brown in Eden (BarHarbor), Maine. Sylvester married May “Mamie” W...Sylvester was a plumber, eventually owning his own shop in Northeast Harbor. In 1909 S.B. Brown advertised that he did bicycle repairing...Brown died on September 20, 1944 in Southwest Harbor, Maine...
Description: ...(Lurvey) Walls in Tremont (Southwest Harbor), Maine. Franze married Rena M. Donnell (1891-1985), daughter of Henry A. Donnell and Lillian B...Franze Earl Walls died on December 13, 1964 in Southwest Harbor, Maine...
File Attachment: Walls_-_Franz_Earl_Walls.pdf …The nearest stores were in BarHarbor and Ellsworth. It was illegal but it was pretty Earle Leonard Boomer (1904-1957) Edna Milligan, Mrs. …Wimpy was so shook up he decided to go to BarHarbor to the liquor store to get something to calm his nerves. …It was probably a good thing that he didn t get to BarHarbor because that evening he would have been drunk. …Harmon Block, 339 Main Street, Map 6 Lot 93, Southwest Harbor.
Description: ...Ruth Celestia Stanley was born on February 11, 1931 to Chester Warren Stanley and Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley at Southwest Harbor, Maine...Ruth married David Ashton Holmes on March 22, 1952 at Southwest Harbor. Ruth worked as a waitress at the Claremont Hotel for two or three summers...
File Attachment: Stanley - Ruth Celestia (Stanley) Holmes (1931-2014).pdf …Stanley Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971) Mother: Robinson Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley (1901-1968) Birth Date: February 11, 1931 Born at: Bar …Harbor, Maine Significant Education: Pemetic High School Graduated 1949 Colby College Attended Class of 1953 Eastern Michigan University, University …Secondary Education Spouse Name: David Ashton Holmes (1929-) Spouse Parents: Wedding Date: March 22, 1952 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine Occupation …Maine Genealogical Society Maine Old Cemetery Association Historical societies of Mount Desert Island, Tremont, Southwest Harbor and Kingfield. St.
Description: ...Meredith was the librarian at the Southwest Harbor Public Library from 1979 until her retirement in 1986...She was co-founder of what is now the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive...
File Attachment: Rich - Meredith Adelle (Rich) Hutchins (1939-2016).pdf …(1911-1989) Birth Date: April 6, 1939 Born at: BarHarbor, Maine Spouse Name: Hutchins - Kenneth Urban Hutchins (1938-) Spouse Parents: Hutchins - Urban …She was born April 6, 1939, in BarHarbor, the daughter of Roger Clifton and Lucile Arlene (Farnsworth) Rich of Tremont. …In later years, she partnered with Charlotte Morrill (Southwest Harbor) curating the Southwest Harbor Public Library archive of historic photographs. …Donations in Meredith s name may be made to the Southwest Harbor Public Library, P.O.
Description: ...Edwin Albert Lawler died on December 23, 1930 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Vienna Sophia Dix Lawler died in 1955 in BarHarbor, Maine...“The Odd Fellows lodge was organized in Southwest Harbor May 7, 1895, with twenty-two charter members. E. A. Lawler was the first Noble Grand...Higgins & son." - BarHarbor Record, Wednesday, November 11, 1905...Lawler.” - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 158 – 1938...
Description: ...George Ripley Fuller, Justice of the Peace, conducted Phoebe and Alfred’s wedding in Southwest Harbor, Maine...Phoebe Francis (Loring) Francis died on October 21, 1964 in BarHarbor, Maine. She is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Hancock, Maine...Prins and Bunny McBride - Prepared under cooperative agreement with The Abbe Museum, BarHarbor, Maine, Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National...
Description: ...Andrew Harmon Herrick died on July 30, 1992 in BarHarbor, Maine. Andrew enlisted in the Army on May 22, 1918...Andrew’s Southwest Harbor neighbor, Millard Eugene Norwood (1896-1918) for whom the Eugene Norwood Square is named, died in the Toul Sector, Argonne Forest...
Description: ...Abbie May (Holden) Lawton died of a broken neck caused by falling down her cellar stairs, on March 28, 1929, in Southwest Harbor, Maine...Abbie is buried in Mount Height Cemetery in Southwest Harbor...
File Attachment: Holden - Abbie May (Holden) Lawton (1854-1929) - T.pdf …Cemetery: Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Maine 1892: Participated in the Dollar Social to raise funds for the Southwest Harbor Public Library …Freeman of Southwest Harbor. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the home with Rev. Oscar L. …BarHarbor Times, April 3, 1929. "This community was greatly shocked and grieved Thursday evening, to learn of the tragic death of Mrs. …See: Neck Broken by Fall: Esteemed Southwest Harbor Woman Victim of Sad Accident.pdf
Description: ...(Orr) Thurston in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Esther married William G. Williams Jr. (1912-1996) on November 7, 1938 in Southwest Harbor...
File Attachment: Thurston – Esther A. (Thurston) Williams (1907-2005).pdf …Orr Thurston (1882-1944) Birth Date: August 11, 1907 Born at: Southwest Harbor, Maine Sisters: Thurston Elizabeth M. …Unknown Wedding Date: November 7, 1938 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine William had come to Mount Desert Island with the CCC (Civilian Conservation …BarHarbor Times, June 17, 1925, p. 6. Students in order as written: Thurston Elizabeth M. (Thurston) King (1905-2009) Thurston Esther A.
Description: ...The Musgraves built their first cottage, "Edgemere," at BarHarbor in 1880. They were prominent players on the social scene at BarHarbor..."In the late 1880s, Thomas faded from the BarHarbor scene as his business and health failed, but Fannie and their son Percy, a noted Boston surgeon, would...
Description: ...The Mayos lived at 8 Wesley Avenue, Southwest Harbor. Lillian died on January 1, 1979 at Southwest Harbor...
File Attachment: Mullins - Lillian E. Mullins Mayo (1889-1979).pdf …Parents: Mayo - Dudley Luther Mayo (1855-1924) and Kimball - Sarah Elizabeth (Kimball) Mayo (1852-1937) Wedding Date: June 13, 1917 Wedding Place: Eden (Bar …Harbor), Maine Occupation: Childhood Home: Home: Fred Sidney Mayo House ME SWH Wesley Avenue 008 Death Date: January 1, 1979 Death Place: …Southwest Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Maine
File Attachment: Mayo – Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949).pdf …Mullins and Margaret Unkown Wedding Date: June 13, 1917 Wedding Place: Eden (BarHarbor), Maine Occupation: Carpenter House Builder 1926 - Worked for …Street 366 Home: Fred Sidney Mayo House ME SWH Wesley Avenue 008 Death Date: 1949 Death Place: Cemetery: Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor …Builder Fine Furniture Repairing Woodworker and Cabinet Maker We take the Machine to the Job Electric Floor Finishing Tel. 9, Wesley Ave., Southwest Harbor
Description: ...mentor to all who share these interests, has been recognized by the government of the United States, the State of Maine and the citizens of Southwest Harbor...
File Attachment: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021).pdf …Stanley Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971) Mother: Robinson Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley (1901-1968) Birth Date: February 9, 1929 Born at: Bar …Preble (1910-1991) Wedding Date: September 22, 1956 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, Southwest Harbor, Maine Occupation: Boatbuilder …ME - SWH Main Street 376 Home: William Doane Stanley House ME - SWH Clark Point Road 102-104 Death Date: December 7, 2021 Death Place: Bar …Stanley was born February 9, 1929, in BarHarbor, on Maine's Mt. Desert Island.
Description: ...French was the first lawyer to practice his profession in the western part of Mount Desert Island starting in 1883 when he moved to Bass Harbor...
File Attachment: French - Eliphalet Webster French (1836-1902).pdf …Lawyer 1883-1901: Lawyer - Notary Justice in Tremont, Maine at Southwest Harbor 1893: Member of the Maine State Bar Association at S.W. …Harbor 1894: Member of the Maine State Bar Association at S.W. …Harbor 1900: Lawyer McKinley, Maine 1901: Commissioner of Deeds South West Harbor, Maine 1901: Member of the Maine State Bar Association at …Webster French, Esq., who came about 1883 to Bass Harbor where he lived for several years, later coming to Southwest Harbor.
Description: ...Douglas “Doug” Emerson Beal Jr. (1952-) was born on August 26, 1952 to Douglas Emerson Beal and Joanne Helen (MacLeod) Beal in Southwest Harbor, Maine...His class started at Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor for two years and finished in the new Island High School for the last two years...
File Attachment: Beal - Douglas Emerson Beal Jr. (1952-2015).pdf …Archer and Patricia Unknown Wedding Date: August 26, 1978 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine 2nd Spouse Name: Debra J. …Obiturary: "SOUTHWEST HARBOR Douglas Emerson Beal Jr., 62, died from complications from surgery at his home in Southwest Harbor. …He was born Aug. 26, 1952, in BarHarbor, the son of Douglas E. Beal Sr. and Joanne H. (MacLeod) Beal. …; sister Jan Beal and partner, Karen Godbout, of Bass Harbor; mother-in law, Patricia Archer; several nieces and nephews.
Description: ...John Gilley would have been remembered for many things, but his death by drowning on October 12, 1896 between Northeast Harbor and Suttons Island and...
File Attachment: Gilley - John Gilley (1822-1896).pdf …in the gale Monday, and Herbert White, a young man from Sullivan, who was with him in the cat boat, was rescued and taken to Southwest Harbor. …Captain Gilley was on his way from Suttons island [sic] to Northeast Harbor to visit his daughter, Mrs. Orrin Donnell. …Young White was rescued half dead and taken to Southwest Harbor where he was unconscious for some time. He recovered yesterday. …Orrin Donnell of Northeast Harbor." - The BarHarbor Record, Wednesday, October 14, 1896 See: The Forgotten Million: John Gilley by Charles William
Description: ...(Latty) Murphy on June 1, 1910 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. George Arthur Neal died in 1939 in Southwest Harbor. Bertha C...
File Attachment: Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939).pdf …Bee, whose summer home was a the Back Shore and whose stationery and confectionary store at BarHarbor was a popular place with an increasing business, …Bradley of BarHarbor built a photograph saloon on the north side of the building and here tintypes as well as "card" and "cabinet" size photographs were …He is a member of the staff of the Mount Desert Island Hospital at BarHarbor and is at present (1937) secretary of the staff. He, as well as Dr. …Neal have returned from Pembroke where they have been spending a short vacation with relatives." - The BarHarbor Times, December 13, 1922.
Description: ...He was stationed in Washington DC, where he met my mother, Josephine Mary Kane who was born and raised in BarHarbor, Maine...Dad and Mom married in Washington DC and shortly afterwards moved back to BarHarbor...When we drove into BarHarbor on Rt 3 in those days there was a clear view of the bridge to the right...