Description: Documents. U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd, Private 1st Class, Medical Detachment, 125th Infantry died with honor in the service of his country on the sixth day of August 1918. Signed and dated 19 October 1918. With War Department envelope addressed to Mr. Lewis E. Ladd, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmark illegible. And a card from the War Department imprinted with info that it's from the President who wishes to express his deep and sincere sympathy. Online genealogy lists Alfred Emery Ladd, born November 17, 1889 who died August 06, 1918 in Action in France. He was the son of Clara E. Gilley and Lewis Ladd. Ladd lived in the present (2016) Freeman house on GCI. [show more]
Description: The building was Dr. Lemont's office and store on the south side of Clark Point Road leaving Main Street. The building, then Cuz's Café, burned on January 30, 1955. It is the site of the Red Sky Restaurant in 2008. The Southwest Harbor band was formed in 1892. This 1912 photograph shows these members: Front Row - left to right: Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) Everton Livingston Gott (1875-1954) - brother of Clyde Smith Gott Frank L. Gilley (1880-1920) Henry Loren Gray (1881-1947) Simeon J. Marshall (1874-1962) Earl Gott (1889-1950) Franze Earl "Wimpy" Walls (1890-1964) Edwin "Ed" George Lord (1878-1955) Note: The name of one person in the front row is missing. Archivists hope a viewer may know who it is and where he is standing. Middle - left to right: H. Chase Bickford (1887-1960) Fred A. Walls (1888-1949) James Crockett (1864-1941) Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958) Edward Harold Bennett (1890-1965) - later a band leader, as was his son, Charlie Bennett (1922-1984) (not in photograph) Saunders Ward Newman (1852-1949) Fred Sydney Mayo (1877-1949) - behind drum Back Row - left to right: Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) - brother of Everton Livingston Gott Clifton Robie Foss (1890-1937) Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971) Standing on the porch - left to right: The girl to the left of Dr. Lemont, leaning on the rail, is Elsie Phillips - later Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (1905-1988) Dr. Robert James Lemont (1842-1926) Elizabeth Lawler (1903-1975) Bertha Robinson - later Mrs. Chester Warren Stanley (1901-1968) [show more]
Description: South Seal Cove School in Tremont, Maine. Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Bernice Ashley. Winter Term 1910. Neal L. Murphy (1898-) son of John T. and Viola A. (Marshall) Murphy Bernice Ashley (1888-1976) daughter of Roland B. and Caroline E. (Sawyer) Ashley
Description: Photo, 8x10 b&w, "Cranberry Isles 191_" (probably 1910 or 1913), showing teacher George Hadlock and students at side of Longfellow School. Georgie Ware says people are: 1st row, from left, 1) unknown boy. 2) Elmer Spurling - son of Ben Spurling - who lived in the Cumming house. 2nd row, 1) Elva Spurling (married name Beal) Elmer Spurling's sister. 2) Elva Bunker (uncle Ben's daughter. Ben built the Keinbusch house out of hemlock boards), 3) Lena Wedge (married name Stanley) Harold Stanley's wife, they lived in house that Days own now. 4) Esther Stanley (married name Spurling) Francis Spurling's wife. Lived in Ginny's house. 5) Hazel Bunker (married name Hardy) Andy Bunker's dau. Lived in Keinbush house. 6) Vincie Bunker (married Hurlbert) Tud Bunker's sister. In 1991 she was 92. 3rd row, 1) unknown boy. 2) Inie Bunker, married Harold Stanley's brother. 3) ???, Gib Stanley's dau. (Gilbert Stanley's dau.) Finkelstein house. 4) Jan Stanley, Arno Stanley's son. 5) unknown boy. 4th row, 1) teacher George Hadlock. 2) Cliff Stanley, Harold's Brother. 3) Arno N ??? Birdie Stanley??? [show more]
Description: The drawing and cover letter are framed together. Miss Gilman attributes the drawing to Hopkinson Smith. The logo continues in use a century later.