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| Stanley - William Doane Stanley (1855-1950) aka Jimmy Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Stanley - William Doane Stanley (1855-1950) aka Jimmy Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Uncle Jimmy - Pa Jim - or Jimmy, William Doane Stanley, was well known at Southwest Harbor and the Cranberry Isles during his life and has become a legend... File Attachment: Stanley - William Doane Stanley (1855-1950).pdf …Death Date: February 8, 1950 Death Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Maine Vessels: No-Name Boat Stanley …While at Cranberry Island he raised chickens probably for the market and hotels at Northeast Harbor. …I don't know what he did there but I believe he was involved with his brothers-in-law in the weir that they had East of Baker Island Bar. …Pierpont of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Grasslands, Northeast Harbor, had died very suddenly a few hours before. | |||
| Clark - Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) aka Deacon Clark Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Clark - Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) aka Deacon Clark Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...For a fascinating description of Deacon Clark and the Island House, written by a man who knew him as a child, see “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine...In 1871 in Southwest Harbor, Maine, he filled these functions: Insurance Agent, Steamboat Agent, Herring Dealer, Proprietor of the Island House Hotel,... File Attachment: Clark – Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) - T.pdf …Clark of Southwest Harbor used to tell often that in 1836 he walked from Southwest Harbor to Castine, a distance of more than forty miles, to buy his wedding …He started teaching school in Bar Harbor at the age of 17 where his job entailed not only imparting knowledge but janitorial services as well, some of …While he was still teaching school in Bar Harbor he joined the Baptist Church, and he remained an active Christian throughout his life. …Clark: Active Nineteenth Century Entrepreneur At SWH by LaRue Spiker, The Bar Harbor Times Thursday, February 4, 1965 | ||
| Robinson - Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Robinson - Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Ralph Judson Robinson died on January 24, 1923 in Southwest Harbor, Maine... File Attachment: Robinson - Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) - T.pdf …Public Library and, away from his workshop, painted the Southwest Harbor High School (later Freeman Elementary School and later Harbor House) in 1905 …Ralph was also a drummer and his workshop offered the Southwest Harbor Band a place to practice. …Death Date: January 24, 1923 Death Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Maine "Ralph J. …Bar Harbor Times, March 21, 1923. | |||
| Foote - Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Foote - Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Henry Wilder Foote II died on August 27, 1964 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Henry Wilder Foote II graduated from Harvard in 1900...1993) who was both a great great granddaughter of Nathan Clark II and Mercy (Higgins) Clark, practically the first settlers on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor..., and a granddaughter of Jacob William Carroll and Rebecca (Whitmore) Carroll of the Mountain House on Carroll Hill in Southwest Harbor... | |||
| Cooksey - George Borwick Cooksey (1851-1922) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cooksey - George Borwick Cooksey (1851-1922) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...George Borwick Cooksey developed several hundred acres in Seal Harbor and commissioned the 1.5 mile road in 1895 to open up several spectacular ocean front... File Attachment: Cooksey – George Borwick Cooksey (1851-1922).pdf …27, 1916 2nd Wedding Place: Pasadena, California Occupation: Successful grain merchant on the New York Produce Exchange Developed real estate in Seal Harbor …Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 12-13, for his memorial and influence on Mount Desert Island. …An often-photographed stone arch bridges Raven s Nest on Cooksey Drive, originally Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor, Maine. …George Borwick Cooksey developed several hundred acres in Seal Harbor and commissioned the 1.5 mile road in 1895 to open up several spectacular ocean front | |||
| Mathews - Albert Mathews (1820-1903) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mathews - Albert Mathews (1820-1903) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Albert Mathews, "of New York", was an early benefactor of the Southwest Harbor Public Library...wall around the library grounds was built at the suggestion of Albert Mathews and with money contributed by him." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor...Gibbon, however, is still available at the Southwest Harbor Public Library!" - Meredith Hutchins 2005... File Attachment: Mathews - Albert Mathews (1820-1903).pdf …Brown as Brown & Mathews. 1848: Admitted as a counselor Albert Mathews was one of the founders of the New York Bar Association New York Bar, 42 West 44th …Association 1886: Vice President of the New York Bar Association Member: Bar Association University Club Century Club Yale Club Authors Club New York …Harbor Record, Wednesday, March 2, 1898, p. 8. 1899: Mr. …Gibbon, however, is still available at the Southwest Harbor Public Library! | |||
| Stewart - Jonathan Stewart (1886-1966) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Stewart - Jonathan Stewart (1886-1966) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...He and his family came to Southwest Harbor some time before 1935 when he built his first house...The machinery at Hall Quarry is being dismantled and removed and what was once a very busy place, employing many men is now very quiet." - The Bar Harbor..."A group of Scottish character songs by Jonathan Stewart of Manset was much enjoyed [at a meeting of the Friday Club in Southwest Harbor] and Mr...." - The Bar Harbor Times, February 1, 1940. According to Jonathan's son, Winston's obituary, Jonathan built three houses in the area... | |||
| Mason - Joseph B. Mason (1842-1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mason - Joseph B. Mason (1842-1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Joseph Brown and Mary Jane (Mason) Mason moved to Southwest Harbor at some time before 1880... File Attachment: Mason - Joseph B. Mason (1842-1915).pdf …Harbor, Maine There is considerable enthusiasm manifested here in trotting and the manly art. …We understand that Lewis Benson bought at Ellsworth the other day Charlie McGouldrick s trotter, and on his way home swapped with Ed Clark of Bar Harbor …Bar Harbor Record, March 3, 1888. 1892: Participated in the Dollar Social to raise funds for the Southwest Harbor Public Library Building. …- Bar Harbor Times, June 5, 1915. | |||
| Mason - Mary Jane (Mason) Mason (1848-1932) aka Jennie Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mason - Mary Jane (Mason) Mason (1848-1932) aka Jennie Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Mason (1848-1932) raised money in 1892 to buy the land for the Southwest Harbor Public Library building by running a “Dollar Social.”... File Attachment: Mason - Mary Jane (Mason) Mason (1848-1932).pdf …Harbor, Maine 1892: Participated in the Dollar Social to raise funds for the Southwest Harbor Public Library Building. …Mason is correspondent for a number of papers and much pleasure is derived from reading Spray s writings." - The Bar Harbor Record, Saturday, June 15 …Desert Harold, Bar Harbor s first newspaper in 1884 Bar Harbor Times, October 26, 1932. 1888 - The first committee appointed for the selection …- Bar Harbor Record, March 16, 1893. Dr. | |||
| Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachments: Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980).pdf …, Maine Death Date: May 25, 1980 Death Place: Bar Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine Children: Ballard - Diane Eleanor Ballard …Morrill, A Southwest Harbor Public Library Imprint, 2013. Willis Humphreys "Bill" Ballard came to Southwest Harbor in 1934. …During World War II, he served as civilian photographer on Army and Navy boatyard work in Southwest Harbor and nearby areas of Hancock County. …The Southwest Harbor Public Library owns many of these images. Mr. Ballard – Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980).pdf …Photographer Biography Ballard Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980) Bill An important MDI photographer worked in Southwest Harbor photographed …Ballard House & Studio Anchor Light Studio ME - SWH Clark Point Road - 066 Death Date: May 25, 1980 Death Place: Bar Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Evergreen …Morrill, A Southwest Harbor Public Library Imprint, 2013. Willis Humphreys "Bill" Ballard came to Southwest Harbor in 1934. …The Southwest Harbor Public Library owns many of these images. Mr. | |||
| George Bucknam Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  George Bucknam Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: George B Dorr File Attachment: Biography_GBD.pdf …Prepared by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Biography Dorr George Bucknam Dorr (1853 1944) Father: Dorr - Charles Hazen Dorr (1821 - 1893) Mother …Wedding Place: Offspring: Occupation: First Superintendent of Acadia National Park Childhood Home: Boston, Massachusetts Adult Home (Summer): Old Farm, Bar …Harbor, Maine Adult Home (Winter) Death Date: 5 August 1944 Death Place: Bar Harbor, Maine Cemetery: Memorial Stone in Mount Auburn Cemetery; ashes scattered …in Bar Harbor __ MS/07-03-2022 Our thanks to Southwest Harbor Public Library for sharing this data entry template for use by The History Trust (Feb | |
| Beatrix Farrand Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Beatrix Farrand Bar Harbor Historical Society File Attachment: Biography-Beatrix Farrand.pdf …Prepared by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Biography Farrand Beatrix Cadwalader Jones Farrand (1872 1959) Father: Fredric Rhinelander Jones ( …Date: 2nd Wedding Place: Offspring: Occupation: Landscape Gardener Childhood Home: Manhattan, New York City, New York Adult Home (Summer): Reef Point, Bar …Harbor, Maine Adult Home (Winter): Montecito, California Death Date: February 28, 1959 Death Place: Bar Harbor, Maine __ MS/04-25-2022 Our thanks to …Southwest Harbor Public Library for sharing this data entry template for use by The History Trust (Feb 2021). | ||
| Mary Gray Ward Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Gray Ward Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Mother of George Bucknam Dorr File Attachment: Biography_MGWD.docx.pdf …Prepared by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Biography Dorr - Mary Gray Ward Dorr (1820 1901) Father: Ward - Thomas Wren Ward (1786 - 1858) Mother: …Wedding Place: 2nd Spouse Name: 2nd Spouse Parents: 2nd Wedding Date: 2nd Wedding Place: Offspring: Dorr - George Bucknam Dorr (1853 - 1944) Occupation: Bar …Harbor VIA Incorporator Childhood Home: Boston, Massachusetts Adult Home (Summer): Bar Harbor, Maine Adult Home (Winter): Boston, Massachusetts Death …Date: October 21, 1901 Death Place: Boston, MA __ MS/04-25-2022 Our thanks to Southwest Harbor Public Library for sharing this data entry template for | ||
| Mary Roberts Rinehart Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Roberts Rinehart Bar Harbor Historical Society File Attachment: Biography-Rinehart.docx.pdf …Prepared by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Biography Rinehart - Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1958) Father: Roberts - Thomas Beveridge Roberts (1850 …Rinehart - Frederick Roberts Rinehart (1902 1981) Occupation: Writer Childhood Home: Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania Adult Home (Summer): Bar …Harbor, Maine Adult Home (Winter): Death Date: 22 September 1958 Death Place: New York City, New York __ MS/07-03-2022 Our thanks to Southwest Harbor | |
| Fahey - Frances E. Fahey (1907-1985) aka Micky Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Fahey - Frances E. Fahey (1907-1985) aka Micky Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...In the 14 years before his retirement in 1973, he was employed as planning officer on the management staff of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor... | |||
| Hinckley - Benjamin Barrett Hinckley Jr. (1913-2004) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hinckley - Benjamin Barrett Hinckley Jr. (1913-2004) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Ben and Alice made their home in Maine, first in Ellsworth and finally for more than 40 years in Southwest Harbor...Ben was a member of the Pot and Kettle Club in Bar Harbor, the Causeway Club in Southwest Harbor, and the Yale Club... | |||
| Emerson - William Ralph Emerson (1833-1917) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Emerson - William Ralph Emerson (1833-1917) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William Ralph Emerson worked as an architect, and of his 161 projects, 48 were in Maine. File Attachment: Emerson - William Ralph Emerson (1833-1917).pdf …Desert Reading Room: ME Bar Harbor Newport Drive - 008 Donated the design of St. …Sylvia s Catholic Church: ME Bar Harbor Kebo Street 053 Dr. A.H. Mason Cottage Dr. Horace Jayne Cottage Samuel E. Lyons Cottage - ? …Curtis Cottage Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar …Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor | |||
| Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Bradley_-_Bryant_Bradley_[1838-1890].pdf …Bradley, Bar Harbor." Boston Post, June 27, 1883. 1887: Bar Harbor Land Co., organized May 23, 1887. Bryant Bradley Treasurer 1887: "E. …Bradley, Landscape and Portrait Photographer, Bar Harbor. …Bradley as operator Bradley Block, Main Street, Bar Harbor Telephone connection Gallery opposite The Rodick" Bar Harbor Mount Desert Herald, April 29, …Bryant Bradley s Bar Harbor: the Work of a Pioneer Mount Desert Photographer. Bar Harbor Historical Society Newsletter. | |||
| Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937).pdf …Fuller and Alvah Rich joined at Bar Harbor to make the necessary number for the formation of the new lodge." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor …Fuller Dies at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor, June 28 George R. …Fuller, one of the oldest members of the Hancock county bar, died at his home here this morning in the eightieth year of his age. Mr. …He taught school, read law in the office of Locke & Locke in Portland, and was admitted to the Hancock county bar in 1887. | ||
| Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Bradley_-_Henry_Lee_Bradley_[1875-1940].pdf …Studio: Opposite the New Post Office, Cottage Street, Bar Harbor H.L. Bradley Telephone Connection" Bar Harbor Record, August 29, 1894. Mr. …Bar Harbor Record, April 8, 1896. 1898: "Mr. H.L. …." - Bar Harbor Record, December 7, 1904. 1908: Miss Bessie Higgins and Mr. F.B. …The Bar Harbor Record, June 17, 1908. 1921: See: H. L. Bradley ads in the Pemetic Yearbooks for 1921, 1927 & 1928. | |||
| Fox - DeGrasse Fox (1838-1904) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fox - DeGrasse Fox (1838-1904) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fox – DeGrasse Fox (1838-1904).pdf …Road, Bar Harbor, Maine Death Date: October 2, 1904 Cemetery: Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor, Maine "From 1871 until his death in 1904, DeGrasse Fox of …Philadelphia spent his summers in Bar Harbor and was active in its development as a resort." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. …Sylvia s Catholic Church to be built at 53 Kebo Street, Bar Harbor. …Fox designed the expansion of George Vanderbilt s Bar Harbor cottage, Pointe d Acadie. 1885: Morris K. | |||
| Caruso - Soly Edward Caruso (1896-1994) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Caruso - Soly Edward Caruso (1896-1994) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: His name may have been Salvatore Eduardo Caruso, but he is listed as “Soly” as early as 1918. He is listed variously as Eduardo, Pasquale, and Salvatore. File Attachment: Caruso - Soly Edward Caruso (1896-1994) - T.pdf …Bar Harbor Times, September 21, 1939. 1927: Barber in West Palm Beach, Florida, home at 329 Eucalyptus. …Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, November 9, 1932. 1962: Caruso s Restaurant Southwest Harbor Specializing in Spaghetti, Chicken in The Basket …Bar Harbor Times, advertisement, August 8, 1962. …Obituary Bar Harbor "Soly F. Caruso, 97, of Southwest Harbor died at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, FL, on August 24, 1994. | |||
| Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-04-04_Waldron_Bates_-_Pathmaker.pdf ….*1 It is a memorial to Waldron Bates, designed by New York sculptor and Bar Harbor summer resident, William Ordway Partridge. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor. Bates graduated from Harvard in 1879 and received his law degree from Boston University in 1882. …News of the tragic death of Waldron Bates prompted the Bar Harbor community to establish additional memorials: - The Bar Harbor VIA changed the name of …In his will he left $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA for it to use the income to repair the "mountain paths of the island of Mount Desert." | |
| Bates - Waldron Bates (1856-1909) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bates - Waldron Bates (1856-1909) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Bates – Waldron Bates (1856-1909).pdf …How (1836-1909) early Bar Harbor developer Significant Education: 1879: Harvard College: graduated 1882: Boston University LL.B Occupation: Map Maker …Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 6-8 for the story of Wadron Bates as a pathmaker and his influence on Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park …News of the tragic death of Waldron Bates prompted the Bar Harbor community to establish additional memorials: - The Bar Harbor VIA changed the name of …In his will he left $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA for it to use the income to repair the "mountain paths of the island of Mount Desert." | |||
| Teague - Edward Fisher Teague (1873-1932) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Teague - Edward Fisher Teague (1873-1932) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Teague - Edward Fisher Teague (1873-1932).pdf …The Bar Harbor Record, June 21, 1905. …- Bar Harbor Times, July 1, 1916 At the time of E. …January 20, 1926 Bar Harbor Times The 1930 census listed him as a hotel clerk. His wife, Mary S. …His brother, Ross Teague, died a few weeks ago at Sailors Snug Harbor at New York. Bar Harbor Times, March 2, 1932. |