Description: Certificate, Intention of Marriage, Frank L. Stanley & Maggie M. Harding, both of Cranberry Isles, 13 Dec 1890, George W. Bulger, Town Clerk. On back, note that parties were duly married 23 Dec 1890 at Cranberry Isles, William P. Preble, Just. Of Peace
Description: Four documents 1891-1900. First: 1891 check from William P. Preble to Almira Beverly for $400.00 2. 1893 Note from the U.S. Pension Agency requesting someone (“madam”) surrender their Pension Certificate and submit a copy of their marriage record, appoint a guardian for child and apply for new certificate from date of their marriage until child is age 16. 3A. [No year] Statement from First national Bank of Ellsworth, ME, for William P. Preble 3B. 1893. Envelope postmarked Portland, ME 1893 from Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary in Portland to Wm. Preble, Cranberry Isles. [May or may not be related to 3A but they were together when accessioned.] 4. 1900 Handwritten note listing charges for hauling wood and coal, etc., for W.P. Preble, signed by E. C. Rosebrook. [show more]
Description: Report by the selectmen of Mount Desert, ME on the financial accounts of the town, including lists of expenditures and receipts, for the fiscal year ending February 9, 1895. There are also reports from the school committee and superintendent of schools. People Mentioned: E. G. Abbott, Mrs. E. G. Abbott, B. T. Atherton, Emily E. Atherton, Charles Babbidge, Seth Babbidge, A. G. Bain, Robert Barron, Abel Bartlett, F. G. Bartlett, William H. Bartlett, Walter D. Blake, Ben Bordeaux, David Bracy Jr., William H. Bracy, Henry Branscom, James N. Branscom, A. P. Brown, Eri L. Bunker, Z. F. Callahan, A. J. Carter, John Carter, A. E. Clement, Charles H. Clement, H. A. Clement, A. E. Clements, Charles Clements, Joseph Corson, William Cox, Palmer Crowley, J. Cunningham, John Dix, Lessie Dix, A. C. Fernald, Charles H. Frazier, Howard Frazier, Allen Freeman, W. H. Freeman, E. W. French, John Gilmore, Mark Gray, R. L. Grindle, J. Hamor, Nellie Hardy, Josie Harper, R. M. Haynes, J. S. Heath, O. M. Heath, Sophrona Hersey, William Hersey, Orrin Heyward, Bert Higgins, Clarence Higgins, Everett Higgins, George Higgins, Harry Higgins, I. C. Higgins, Sidney P. Higgins, Agnes Hill, J. C. Hill, Gilbert Hodgdon, Leroy R. Hodgdon, Angie Johnson, Alvin Joy, Henry Kineston, Fred Leighton, B. F. Leland, Benjamin Leland, Frank Leland, Grace M. Libby, Charlotte Lunt, Jacob Lunt, Mercy Lunt, Rachael M. Lunt, Cyrus Lurvey, A. L. Manchester, Manson Manchester, Thomas Manchester, George Mayo, Kate Mitchell, Nellie Morgan, C. C. Morrison, Sidney P. Murphy, Loren Newman, Israel N. Norwood, J. W. Ober, George Parker, Charles Perry, Charles Pervear, Nahum Pinkham, D. E. Pray, Edward L. Pray, Meda Pray, John Pung, Andrew H. Reed, Jared R. Reed, Joseph Reed, Olevia Reed, Ada Richardson, Clifford B. Richardson, D. D. Richardson, Emma Richardson, Eugene D. Richardson, J. Richardson, John G. Richardson, Laura Richardson, Mary E. Richardson, Thomas Richardson, William S. Richardson, George E. Ring, Charles Robinson, George H. Robinson, Howard Robinson, Everett Salisbury, Francis Salisbury, Amos Sinclair, Edwin Smallidge, Walter Smallidge, Ella F. Smith, Lowell Smith, Richmond Smith, V. D. Smith, Blanche Somes, C. T. Somes, Della Somes, Deucy Somes, Fred H. Somes, Harry G. Somes, Kate Somes, Lewis Somes, Madella Somes, Mrs. L. H. Somes, Sewell W. Thom, E. B. Tibbits, Charles Tracy, Maud Trask, Everett Treworgy, Daniel Walls, E. N. Walls, Edgar Walls, Elbridge Walls, Greely Walls, Samuel M. Walls, William T. Walls, E. L. Warren, Warren H. Whitmore [show more]
Description: Annual report for the town of Tremont, Maine. People Mentioned: William N. Abbott, A. J. Babbidge, Ida M. Bates, Josie E. Billings, Alice A. Brackett, A. J. Bunker, Nellie Rebecca Carroll, Albert J. Carver, Eben B. Clark, J. T. Clark, Georgie Devereux, Lucy M. Dodge, John Dolby, Clarence E. Dow, Mary L. Driscoll, Lucinda T. Ellis, James S. Fernald, J. W. Freeman, John T. R. Freeman, George R. Fuller, Minnie E. Geary, George H. Gilley, J. H. Gilley, Fred Gott, J. S. Gott, Roscoe Gott, Fanny Gross, Daniel Handy, Joseph Harmon, Albert Harper, H. P. Harper, Josie Harper, Fred W. Heath, William W. A. Heath, Maud Higgins, C. M. Holden, Sally Hopkins, Lelia Kelley, A. W. King, Frances E. King, Caroline R. Lawler, Lulu Mayo, Hattie Milan, William C. Moore, Mary Morris, Josie Murphy, Stillman Nutter, Mabel I. Ober, James S. Powers, Albion R. Pray, John Ralph, Grace M. Reed, M. R. Rich, Mary H. Rich, Mrs. W. W. Rich, Susie Rich, W. W. Rich, A. T. Richardson, Amanda E. Richardson, Herbert P. Richardson, Perry W. Richardson, Ellis Robinson, William A. Robinson, Gertie Rumill, Loren W. Rumill, Robie M. Rumill, Ella F. Smith, W. A. Spear, C. H. Stanley, Fanny Thurston, John V. Tinker, Lucy A. Titus, Vincie Torrey, Henry Tracy, A. Walls, John C. Walls, Josie H. Walls, Lydia Walls, Willis Watson, Joseph O. Whitcomb, John G. Wilson, Myra Wilson, Phebe F. Wilson, J. E. Wooster [show more]
Description: Society edition of The Bar Harbor Record from August 12, 1899 with articles on events held in honor of the visit of the North Atlantic Squadron led by Admiral William T. Sampson, golf scores, notable arrivals at area hotels, gossip from the town of Newport, and a fictional travel diary from Manila. Several advertisements are included as well. The name Reginald Johnson is written on the back cover. People Mentioned: Robert Adams, Mrs. W. C. Allison, W. C. Allison, Mrs. Robert Amory, Robert Amory, H. Arnold, Calvin Austin, M. L. Balch, George V. N. Baldwin, Mrs. Bleecker Banks, Mrs. Henry I. Barbey, Herbert H. Barnes, Mrs. Edgar W. Bass, Mrs. Truxton Beale, I. Sanford Beaty, David Belasco, Oliver H. P. Belmont, J. Gerald Benkard, E. C. Bentzon, Mrs. Charles William Bergner, K. V. R. Berry, H. G. Beyer, Christine W. Biddle, J. C. Mercer Biddler, Theodore Bjorksten, James Bracy, Lothrop Bradley, Mrs. Lothrop Bradley, S. F. Bridgham, Mrs. Robert Coleman Brock, John Crosby Brown, Mrs. John Crosby Brown, Thomas Bush, Mrs. Leslie Carter, F. E. Chadwick, John Chadwick, A. D. Childs, M. G. Childs, Carroll Brent Chilton, John E. Clark, Edward Coles, Mrs. Thomas G. Condon, T. G. Condon, Joseph Corson, Charles Cramp, Florence Cramp, E. J. Curley, Edwin C. Cushman, Mrs. T. DeWitt Cuyler, Elizabeth Davies, Aaron Davis, Jessica Davis, Mrs. John Davis, G. de Stale, Samuel B. Dean, Emily Delafield, Mrs. Lewis Livingston Delafield, G. Des Champs, Elizabeth Dodge, William E. Dodge, Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, Anna Vernon Dorsey, C. H. Draper, Cleaves Draper, W. F. Draper, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, George W. Childs Drexel, G. Dunlap, John Dunlap, Julia Pierrepont Edwards, Mrs. Pierrepont Edwards, Pierrepont Edwards, Pattie Elison, Mrs. Frank Ellis, Ralph N. Ellis, Mrs. John J. Emery, Osmond Emery, Max Etting, H. L. Ewer, Ernesto G. Fabbri, Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri, F. H. Faught, Charles Fearing, William Fennelly, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, M. Franklin, Mrs. R. Horace Gallatin, W. H. Gillbart, G. H. Gillette, Nora Godwin, Julia Dent Grant, Mrs. William L. Green, William Lawrence Green, A. C. Gurnee, G. W. Guthrie, John A. Haddan Jr., Esther B. Hare, J. J. Clark Hare, John Harrison, Mrs. John Harrison, B. S. Higgins, William H. Hill, Frances Hinckle, A. H. Hinkle Jr., Asa Hodgkins, H. M. Hodgkins, Orville Horwitz, Charles T. How, Hollis H. Hunnewell Jr., T. G. Ireland, Charles Carroll Jackson, Mrs. Harry Jenkins, Mrs. Theodore F. Jewell, Theodore F. Jewell, J. Norton Johnson, Mrs. Francis H. Johnson, Reginald Johnson, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Frederic Joy, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Edward Kirk, R. H. Kittredge, J. Komwia, Mrs. Gouveneur Kortright, Julius Kuison, Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg, Francis W. Lawrence, Mrs. Abram R. Lawrence, Andrew Leffler, R. J. Lemont, William Fisher Lewis, Mrs. Philip Livingston, Philip Livingston, Mrs. George Lord, Fred C. Lynam, Peter Marie, E. L. Mason, Mary L. McCarthy, R. Hall McCormick, Edward B. Mears, Mrs. Edward B. Mears, Max Merryweather, William Miller, Mrs. Edward Caldwell Moore, John Moran, T. F. Moran, Dave Hennen Morris, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, M. C. Morrison, A. H. Morse, E. S. J. Morse, Mrs. A. H. Morse, Mrs. Howard Munnikhuysen, Walden Myers, W. P. Neal, Clement Newbold, Alice Olies, Julia Olies, S. H. Olies, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Frances Parsons, Herbert Parsons, Arthur C. Patterson, Eleanor Stuart Patterson, Henry S. Patterson, Mrs. Edward Patterson, Mrs. A. P. Peabody, Edmund Pendleton, Mrs. Edmund Pendleton, Carroll S. Perot, E. B. Pike, Mrs. James W. Pinchot, Frank H. Platt, Alice Pomeroy, Mrs. J. Biddle Porter, Michael Power, Mrs. Henry Redman, Mrs. Jules Reynal, Mrs. Waldo Richards, George Riddle, Arden M. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Robbins, Tobias L. Roberts, James A. Robinson, Mrs. J. C. Rogers, Mrs. Raymond Rogers, William T. Sampson, Helen Sands, Kate Sands, Mrs. W. P. Sands, W. P. Sands, Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, Edgar T. Scott, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, Grace Seely, H. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Seely, W. W. Seely, Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner Sherman, C. D. Sigsbee, Mrs. Samuel Slater, Helen M. Smith, J. Emlen Smith, Mrs. C. Morton Smith, Mrs. Fremont Smith, Mrs. Edward I. Snelling, Charles F. Sprague, Mrs. Seth E. Sprague, R. A. Sproul, A. L. Stafford, George J. Stafford, Mrs. Miles Standish, John A. Stewart, Milton W. Stratton, M. Sullivan, H. C. Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, Mrs. Samuel Thomas, Samuel Thomas, E. K. Thorndike, Harry Thorndike, Mrs. J. Quincy Thorndike, C. I. Train, Mrs. C. I. Train, Mrs. John B. Trevor, Mrs. Alexander Van Nest, Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, William K. Vanderbilt Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, Roger Walcott Jr., Mrs. Roger Walcott, Roger Walcott, Mrs. W. P. Walley, Wilford Watters, George P. Wescott, John W. Wheaton, Mrs. Henry Whelen, Mrs. William N. Whelen, Franklin A. Wilson, M. A. Wilson, C. M. R. Winslow, H. Roger Winthrop, Spencer Wood [show more]
Description: Society edition of The Bar Harbor Record from July 29, 1899 with articles on recent parties and other social events, notable arrivals at area resorts, a yacht race out of Frenchman Bay, golf scores, gossip from the town of Newport, and a fictional story about travelers in Canada. Several advertisements are included as well. The name Reginald Johnson is written on the back cover. People Mentioned: Eda Aberle, Mrs. Ricards Acosta, Amelia Ames, Butler Ames, Eleanor Ames, Harold Arrowsmith, Charles Baker, Christine Baker, W. Baker, M. L. Balch, Albert Sprague Bard, J. Sanford Barnes Jr., Charlotte A. Barnes, Cornelia R. Barnes, Edith S. Barnes, James Barnes, Llewellyn Barry, August Belmont, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Perry Belmont, Perry Belmont, E. C. Bentzon, Mrs. Charles William Bergner, Theodore Bjorksten, Stephen Bonsal, Lincoln F. Brigham, Edward Browning, N. B. Burr, Otway Byrd, Frederic Cabot, Miles B. Carpenter, F. Catherwood, John Chadwick, J. P. Cheney, M. Cheney, P. Cheney, T. L. Cheney, W. B. Cheney, W. C. Cheney, A. D. Childs, Carroll Brent Chilton, John E. Clark, Henry Clews, John Codman, A. W. Cole, Mrs. A. W. Cole, Mrs. Edward Coles, Mrs. Thomas G. Condon, T. G. Condon, Joseph Corson, Charles H. Cramp, C. I. Cresswell, E. P. Cresswell, Mrs. C. I. Cresswell, Grafton Cushing, Charles Dabney, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, A. S. Davis, K. S. Davis, Samuel B. Dean, William P. Draper, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, Mrs. Pierrepont Edwards, K. W. Eginton, Frank Ellis Jr., Mrs. Frank Ellis, J. J. Emery, Mrs. J. J. Emery, Osmond Emery, C. S. Fairchild, Mrs. C. S. Fairchild, William Fennelly, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, DeGrasse Fox, Sylvia Fox, M. Franklin, R. H. Gallatin, E. T. Garland, John Glidden, Parke Godwin, E. R. Gould, M. Adelaide Gould, Mrs. E. R. Gould, Douglas S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, Mrs. David Beach Grant, Mrs. Douglas Stewart Grant, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, Mrs. Ulysses Grant, Edward Everett Hale, Augustus Noble Hand, Leonard Hand, Marcia Hand, Richard E. Hand, Theodosia Hand, Mrs. C. G. Harrington, Edith Hastings, Ellen Hawes, John B. Henderson Jr., John B. Henderson, Mrs. John B. Henderson, Mrs. Bernard Henry, Erskine Hewitt, B. S. Higgins, Arthur Devon Hill, O'Donnell Hillen, A. H. Hinkle Jr., Mrs. Robert Hinkley, H. M. Hodgkins, George Quintard Horwitz, Orville Horwitz, Charles How, Mrs. S. S. Howland, Mrs. E. K. Hubbard, Paul Hunt, George Ingalls, Eunice Ives, Charles Carroll Jackson, Elsie L. Jackson, J. Norton Johnson, Mrs. Francis Howe Johnson, Reginald Johnson, C. E. Jones, Mrs. C. E. Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Arthur Kemp, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Mrs. H. W. Kent, Mrs. M. H. Kimball, R. H. Kittredge, Madeline Knowlton, Mrs. Henry Knowlton, H. A. Lamb, Mrs. H. A. Lamb, Francis W. Lawrence, Marian Lawrence, Andrew Leffler, R. J. Lemont, Josephine Lippincott, Thomas Lipton, Mrs. Philip Livingston, Philip Livingston, F. A. Lombard, Mrs. Daniel Lord, James B. Ludlow, Fred C. Lynam, Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, Mrs. Addison Macullan, Henry G. Marquand, E. Marvin, Langdon Marvin, Frederick Mason, Mrs. Frederick Mason, Frederic May, Mary L. McCarthy, Mrs. Bloomfield McIlvaine, Edward B. Mears, William Miller, S. Weir Mitchell, W. E. Montgomery, T. F. Moran, Dave Hennen Morris, M. Morris, Mrs. Dave H. Morris, Mrs. F. I. Morris, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, M. C. Morrison, A. Henry Mosle, Frances Moulton, Mrs. A. R. Moulton, W. P. Neal, Clement Newbold, Mrs. Columbus O'Donnell, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Henry Parish, Mrs. Edward Patterson, Edmund Pendleton, Carroll S. Perot, W. Philips, Mrs. W. H. Pitkin, W. H. Pitkin, Thomas Plant, Ellen B. Platt, Frank H. Platt, Livingston Platt, Mrs. Frank H. Platt, Luther B. Pollard, Dyneley Prince, E. Rawle, L. Rawle, Mrs. James Rawle, Mrs. Jules Reynal, J. C. Rice, John J. Ridgeway, Charles Riley, Mrs. Edward H. Ripley, Arden M. Robbins, George A. Robbins, H. Delano Robbins B., Mrs. H. Delano Robbins, Tobias L. Roberts, James A. Robinson, Mrs. L. de M. Sajous, John Saltonstall, William T. Sampson, Helen Sanders, Mrs. William J. Schieffelin, Mrs. J. M. Scofield, Edgar T. Scott, George S. Scott, Hugh Scott, Mary Scott, Mrs. George S. Scott, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, Mrs. Richard Sears, Mrs. W. W. Seely, O. Seymour, Mrs. Rufus E. Shapley, Gardiner Sherman, Henry T. Sloane, Bruce Smith, Byron L. Smith, Harold Smith, Mrs. F. F. Smith, Mrs. Fremont Smith, Sol Smith, Walter B. Smith, Frederic O. Speddy, R. A. Sproul, George J. Stafford, Louis Starr, Mrs. Louis Starr, Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, M. A. Stone, Milton W. Stratton, Edward Sturgis, Lucy Sturgis, McCulloch Sturgis, S. Warren Sturgis, Russell Sturigs, M. Sullivan, Mrs. D. C. Tally, Francis L. Taylor, H. A. C. Taylor, Katherine Taylor, Mrs. Francis Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, Robert Downey Taylor, H. B. Temby, Mrs. H. B. Temby, C. S. Thomas, J. B. Thompson, Harry Thorndike, Benjamin K. Tilton, Helen Wilson Tisdel, Ralph Townsend, A. C. Train, Charles J. Train, Grace Train, Russell Train, Susan Train, N. Trotter, Harry B. Turpin, C. P. Van Wyck, Robert Varnum, Arnold Watson, John W. Wheaton, Mrs. William N. Whelen, H. J. Whigham, A. L. White, Harry Whitney, Stanton Whitney, Stephen Whitney, William C. Whitney, M. A. Wilson, Buchanan Winthrop, Gregore de Wollant, Mrs. Gregore de Wollant, Henry Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Francis E. Woodruff, H. E. Woodruff [show more]
Description: Souvenir issue of the Bar Harbor Record published on the centennial of the town of Eden's (the former name of Bar Harbor) founding. Includes the history of the area, discussion of the town's paths and trails, descriptions of the most impressive cottages and homes of residents, a summary of pastimes and pleasures, and biographies of prominent businessmen. Several photographs and drawings as well as advertisements accompany the articles. People Mentioned: Arthur D. Addison, J. Milton Allen, Isaac Allerton, Augustine Amory, Robert Amory, H. Anderson, Samuel Argall, George W. Armstrong, John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Atherton, John Avery, Samuel D. Babcock, Charles R. Bacon, Julie A. Bailey, M. L. Balch, J. Mark Baldwin, Mrs. William Barnes Jr., Albert Clifford Barney, Christopher Bartlett, David Bartlett, Elias Bartlett, Israel Bartlett, Edgar W. Bass, Waldron Bates, Miles Beach, J. Arthur Beebe, Mrs. George H. Bend, Laura Benet, S. V. Benet, Nathaniel Bennett, E. C. Bentzon, Charles William Bergner, Francis Bernard, Rebecca Biard, Christine W. Biddle, Mary D. Biddle, Mrs. Henry J. Biddle, Josiah Black, William P. Blackwell, James G. Blaine, Edward L. Blair, B. F. Blake, Sarah P. Blight, Samuel Bowden, Joseph Tilton Bowen, Mrs. George Pendleton Bowler, Ephraim Bray, Helen W. Buchanan, James A. Buchanan, L. Duncan Bulkley, Isaac Bunker, C. C. Burrill, George Butler, J. Albert Butler, Antoine de la Mothe Sieur de Cadillac, Eliza Caldwell, William Caldwell, E. M. Calvert, Daniel Carr, Lucien Carr, Christopher Carver, Clarence Cary, Mrs. Wilson M. Cary, Ellen M. Cerine, Florence Cerine, Samuel DeChamplain, H. G. Chapman, Mrs. C. F. Chickering, H. L. Cleaves, Eva Cochran, Mrs. William F. Cochran, Edward Coles, Frank M. Conners, Abby E. Cook, J. M. Cook, Joseph T. Cook, Erastus Corning, Frederic R. Coudert, Elisha Cousins, John Cousins, Susan D. Cox, A. Green Crabtree, H. D. Crosby, J. L. M. Curry, Joseph H. Curtis, Mrs. Edwin C. Cushman, W. H. Davis, W. K. Davis, Luere B. Deasy, Mrs. Alfred De Castro, Bartholomew DeGregoire, Marie Therese DeGregoire, John DeKoven, William E. Denison, Mrs. William Denison, Hasket Derby, Henry F. Dimock, Ezra H. Dodge, William E. Dodge, C. F. Dole, Peter Dolliver, Patrick Donahoe, George B. Dorr, Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, S. M. Downs, Mrs. William P. Draper, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, J. R. Drexel, C. F. Dunbar, Amos Eaton, Creighton Eddy, George H. Eddy, Margarette Edes, T. R. B. Edmands, J. Pierrepont Edwards, Frank S. Ellis, J. J. Emery, Julien Emery, A. B. Farnham, Faranton S. Farrell, William Fennelly, C. H. Fernald, Tobias Fernald, Sydney G. Fisher, Morgan J. Flaherty, Roswell Flower, Alexander Forsyth, Georgy Henry Forsyth, James Bennett Forsyth, John Forsyth, Giraud Foster, James Foster, Rogert Foster, DeGrasse Fox, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, Charles Francis, Max Franklin, J. J. Fransworth, B. W. Frazier, Mrs. Nalbro Frazier, Reuben Freeman Jr., George Freeman, Mrs. George Freeman, Reuben Freeman, Mrs. Calvin Frost, Charles Fry, Mrs. Charles Fry, Henry W. Fuller, Mary G. Fuller, Emma C. Fulsom, James Fulton, Mrs. Richard Gambrill, T. Garceau, James T. Gardiner, James A. Garland, Catherine Garrethson, Frederic Gebhard, James W. Gerard, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. H. D. Gibson, William Gilley, E. Shirley Goddard, Frederic N. Goddard, Parke Godwin, F. W. Goss, Daniel Gott II, Joseph Gott, Peter Gott, Henry T. Gould, H. A. Grant, Adolphus W. Greely, Charles Ewing Green, William Lawrence Green, John Gretto, W. S. Gurnee, Simeon Hadley, Jonathan Hadlock, Samuel Hadlock, E. C. Haight, John H. Haines, Mrs. Valentine G. Hall, Alden Hamor, David Hamor, Eben M. Hamor, Elihu T. Hamor, John Hamor, Millard L. Hamor, John Hancock, Alpheus Hardy, George Harmond, Herbert Harriman, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Theodore Havemeyer, George G. Haven, William D. Haynes, W. R. Hearst, Richard Heath, Willaim Heath, William Tod Helmuth, David B. Hemenway, Arthur Herburt, Belinda C. Heyden, David Higgins Jr., Albert Higgins, Blithen S. Higgins, David Higgins, Eleazer Higgins, Henry Higgins, Israel Higgins, Jesse Higgins, John T. Higgins, Levi Higgins, Solomon Higgins, Philip Highley, N. Hillson, A. Howard Hinkle, Isabella Hodgkins, Joseph Hogdon, Joseph Hopkins, Delphine Hopper, J. P. Horwitz, Charles T. How, W. B. Howard, Eliza Howe, Samuel Howe, Alfred M. Hoyt, Jesse Hoyt, Reuben Hoyt, Samuel Hull, Paul Hunt, W. E. Huntington, C. H. Hursh, James Hyde, C. S. Ingalls, Mark L. Ingraham, Brayton Ives, Charles Carroll Jackson, F. W. Jackson, William L. Jackson, Herbert Jacques, H. M. Jernegan, Morris K. Jesup, Evelyn Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Gabriel Johonnot, Beatrix Jones, Cadwalader Jones, Frank Jones, John D. Jones, Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. M. C. Jones, Bither Jordan, Mrs. George DeBenneville Keim, David Kelley, Mrs. George Kemp, John S. Kennedy, J. L. Ketterlinus, Prescott Keyes, William Keyser, Leo A. Knott, Henry Knowles, Moses Ladd, Daniel S. Lamont, Phillip Langley, A. R. Lawrence, Isaac Lawrence, W. H. Lawrence, M. C. Lea, Amariah Leland, Ansel B. Leland, Ebenezer Leland, Ezra Leland, Sylvanus Leonard, Barnard C. Lewis, Charles H. Lewis, Dexter W. Lewis, Edison Lewis, Kennith Lewis, Leonora Lewis, Charles A. Linquest, Arthur Little, Mrs. Morris Longstreth, Mrs. S. A. Lovejoy, Jacob Lurvey, A. H. Lynam, Fred C. Lynam, William Lynam, John W. Mackay, Samuel MacLonlock, John Manchester, Thomas Manchester, Mrs. F. C. Manning, D. P. Marcyes, Nathaniel Marcyes, Joseph Marshall, Morgan Marshall, Stephen G. Marston, Nathan Matthews, Mrs. J. Frederic May, Gideon Mayo,, Henry Mayo, Isaac Mayo, Joseph Mayo, Joshua Mayo, Edward McCauley, R. Hall McCormick, John McKenzie, James L. McLane, John R. McLean, Hugh McMillan, Edward B. Mears, Samuel Miliken, Simeon B. Miliken, Hugh Millen, D. O. Mills, Mrs. L. S. Minot, John Minturn, John Mitchell, S. Weir Mitchell, Welsh Moor, John Moore, J. Pierrepont Morgan, M. F. Morley, David H. Morris, C. C. Morrison, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, Alexander Moseley, Annie Muller, T. B. Musgrave, Wallace Neff, Mrs. John S. Newbold, George B. Nichols, Reuben Noble, Otis Norcross, Joshua Norwood, William Norwood, William Nutter, Isaac Ober, Joseph M. Ober, David B. Ogden, Mrs. Gouveneur M. Ogden, Leonard E. Opdycke, Aulick Palmer, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Silas Parker, James Parrish, Herbert Parsons, Edward Patterson, Louise Patterson, Charles Payson, Mrs. A. P. Peabody, Oliver W. Peabody, Lydia Pemrose, Mary Pemrose, Edmund Pendleton, R. A. F. Penrose, Mrs. Austin Phelps, Samuel Phillips, Walter P. Phillips, Emily Pierce, E. S. Pike, Lydia E. Pinkham, Mrs. Robert Pitcairn, Mrs. George Place, H. B. Plant, M. F. Plant, Biddle Porter, E. M. R. Porter, Hibbard Porter, J. Biddle Porter, J. R. Porter, Margarette Biddle Porter, James M. Parker Post, Mrs. R. B. Potter, Ephraim Pray Jr., Edward Prescott, Thomas B. A. Price, Cornelia Prime, Henry H. Proctor, Mary A. Proctor, Joseph Pulitzer, William Putnam, Mrs. E. S. Randolph, Jacob Read, James Read, Samuel Read, Thomas A. Reilly, Albert S. Rice, Mrs. William B. Rice, William B. Rice, John Rich Jr., John Rich, Samuel N. Rich, James Richardson Jr., Bloomfield Richardson, David R. Richardson, Enoch Richardson, George Richardson, James Richardson, John G. Richardson, Mary Richardson, Stephen Richardson, Thomas Richardson, J. P. Riley, George A. Robbins, George M. Roberts, Tobias L. Roberts, William Roberts, William Rochester, Daniel Rodick, Fountain H. Rodick, William Rogers, F. W. Rollins, Ebenezer Salisbury, Stephen Salisbury, Mrs. Edward Samuel, John Sanders, S. D. Sargeant, Aaron Sawyer, D. A. F. Schauffler, William Jay Schieffelin, Winfield Schley, Edgar Scott, Mrs. R. B. Scott, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, J. Montgomery Sears, W. W. Seely, Thomas O. Selfridge, J. P. Sharpless, H. Lawrence Sheldon, Elliott F. Shepard, Gardiner Sherman, J. B. Shober, Charles P. Simpson, J. H. Simpson, Charles A. Sinclair, Timothy Smallidge II, Timothy Smallidge, C. Morton Smith, Cornelius Smith, Edward A. Smith, F. Fremont Smith, Frank Hill Smith, Helen M. Smith, Mary F. Smith, Mrs. C. B. Smith, Mrs. G. S. Smith, W. French Smith, Giles Snow, Prudence Somes, Rachel Herrick Somes, Abraham Somes II, Abraham Somes, Daniel Somes, John W. Somes, G. E. Soper, J.F. Spofford, Charles F. Sprague, Robert Sproul, Baron de St. Castin, William P. St. John, Peter Stanley, Francis L. Stetson, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Stockton, Anson Phelps Stokes, Moorfield Storey, William Struthers, Mrs. R. S. Sturgis, Daniel Sullivan, Andrew Tarr, J. Madison Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, James B. Thayer, John Thomas Jr., John Thomas, Katherine Thomas, Nicholas Thomas, John H. Thurston, Lyman Tiffany, John Tinker, James Ross Todd, R. H. Townsend Jr., Andrew Tucker, Payson Tucker, Lawrence Turnure, Carroll Tyson, Mrs. M. D. Van Doren, George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, William K. Vanderbilt, W. A. Walker, Mrs. W. P. Walley, Benjamin Ward, David Wasgatt Jr., Thomas Wasgatt, Davis Wasgatt, Thomas Wasgatt, W. Herbert Washington, John W. Weeks, Hannah Weld, William S. Wells, George M. Wheeler, A. C. Wheelwright, Andrew Whipple, Guy Fairfax Whiting, Frank E. Whitmore, Parker Whitmore, Henry M. Whitney, William C. Whitney, A. B. Wilbor, Caroline Wilson, Charles H. Wood, James T. Woodward, B. W. Wrenn, Charles L. Yorke, Elkannah Young, Ezra Young, Robert Young [show more]
Description: Photo, ca. 1895, rear view of the Preble House showing William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) with two women. The woman on the left could be Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble (1826-1898). The house was built by Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Samuel Spurling ca. 1827, and was occupied by Hadlocks and Prebles related through marriage or blood for its first century. The house and property have expanded and contracted over the course of its nearly 200 years. It was restored in the late 1940s and stands today as one of the largest and most historic homes on Great Cranberry Island. It was the boyhood home of Civil War General Andrew Barclay Spurling who was born across the street in the Freeman house. [show more]
Description: Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble in 1891. He explains there have been many fatal cases of the grippe (flu); suggestions for how to handle repairs and sale of the GCI meeting house (church); and that his brother Andrew is disposing of his interests in the company (presumably Chicago Rawhide Mfg); Transcribed.
Description: Photo, Rocky Hill School-Carl Hardy's House (later Malcolm Donald's house) ca. 1890. From right: Mamie Spurling Birlem, Charles Spurling, Jr. (brother and sister), Elva Stanley (Addie's Sister), Perley Stanley, Sadie Bulger, Pink Bulger, Sadie Bunker Steele Sevenson, Lena Spurling (Eber's wife), Lena Ladd, Frank Bunker, Annie Bunker Spurling (Millard's wife), Harvey Bulger, Mrs. Rich (Teacher), Roy Bulger, Vida Crosley, Peter Richardson (Charles), Philmore Steele, Addie Duran, John Steele, Ida Stover, Alfred Ladd (note: List of names is on a handwritten note underneath the red cover at back of picture) [show more]
Description: Document (three pages, A, B, and C). A - letter signed 'Bro Will' (likely William P. Preble) and addressed to 'Sister Lucinda', regarding papers received from Peter, and making sure 'Father' has copies of them. Mention of having to 'make up a new account = since 1892'. Dated Chicago, October 21, 1898. B - Copy (handwritten) of letter sent to 'Father', regarding a matter with Mr. Peters and getting 'your acct all right'. Mentions details of 'Sam' (likely Sammy Sanford) suing the Preble's, and that 'his account rendered only goes back to 6 years'. Dated Chicago, October 21st, 1898. C - at head of letter is written 'Copy of declaration in Sanford's suit'. Written to William P. Preble, with dollar amounts of medical attendence, food and clothing, and services rendered between 1892 and 1898, totaling $2200. [show more]
Description: Document (three consecutive pages, A, B, and C. Likely that one or more pages are missing). Letter addressed to 'Father Preble, Cranberry Isles', dated February 12th, 1899, from Seawall ME. Author (Sammy Sanford?) is discussing the repair of various tools and furniture, presumeably belonging to 'Father Preble' (William P?). Third page ends with a reference, '... the next time I come on The Island'.
Description: Business receipt. Two sides. Dated April 29, 1899, Boothbay Harbor. Signed by W. H. Preble, a promise to pay $159 to B. H. Spurling for "value received".
Description: Letter: W.P. Preble (grandson) to William P. Preble, undated, about grandson's search for letters his grandfather asked for, and mentioning that the grandfather said in 1898 that he was "...unable to attend to business any longer, my strength is failing and I am wasting away, and ... I just put everything in your hands, and cannot attend to it any longer." Transcribed.
Description: Letter: William P. Preble to Wm. H. Preble (son), 7 Nov 1898, putting his entire affairs into his son's hands, and complaining of Samuel Sanford's recent change to ungratefulness. This is the letter referred to in item #825. Transcribed.
Description: Document, 1 handwritten sheet, apparently by William P. Preble 1898 or after, listing sources of income: $200 to administer Thomas Stanley estate, $440 from Post Office for years 1893-1897, $500 from sale of Union Meeting House in 1896, $50 for sale of land to William P. Richardson. Also lists all his farming & animal husbandry activities. Item given to Komusin by Dot & Andy McSorley, when he bought his land from them. Transcribed.
Description: Copy of an 8" x 10" black and white photo of Charles Emery "Peter" Richardson in The Pool on Great Cranberry Island, believed to have been taken about 1893 by Frederick Wesley Morse (1870-1929). (This photo and two others (1000.2.193 and 191) are accompanied by a note: "Merry Christmas 1990, Dear Gaile - I thought you might like to have copies of the three photos that I found in Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. The little boy in the hat is, I believe, Peter Richardson. The photos were taken about 1893. Have a wonderful Christmas! All our love to you both, Jim & Isabelle" Storey. , From Memories of a Maine Island by Marie Locke and Nancy Montgomery 1998 [show more]
Description: Photo. Copy of an 8" x 10" black and white photograph of Charles Emery "Peter" Boynton Richardson (1885-97`) (in the flat hat) and John Billings Steele, Jr. (1880-1911) in The Pool on Great Cranberry Island, taken about 1893 by Frederick Wesley Morse. (This photo and two others (1000.2.194 and 192) are accompanied by a note: "Merry Christmas 1990, Dear Gaile - I thought you might like to have copies of the three photos that I found in Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. The little boy in the hat is, I believe, Peter Richardson. The photos were taken about 1893. Have a wonderful Christmas! All our love to you both, Jim & Isabelle" Storey. [show more]