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| Parker - James Parker Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Parker - James Parker Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||||
| Louise Hunt McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Louise Hunt McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Married George Gibson McMurtry October 25, 1933. They had a daughter. They drew up separation papers on May 21, 1942. | ||||
| Mrs. George G. McMurtry (McMurtry - Mabel C. (Post) McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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| Mrs. George G. McMurtry (McMurtry - Mabel C. (Post) McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Wife of George Gibson McMurtry, which see. Married 1906-1933. | ||||
| Moore - Carrie Mabel (Moore) Cadwell (1864 - 1954) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Moore - Carrie Mabel (Moore) Cadwell (1864 - 1954) Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||||
| Moore - Joshua S. Moore Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Moore - Joshua S. Moore Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||||
| Somes - Caroline Francis (Somes) Moore Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Somes - Caroline Francis (Somes) Moore Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||||
| George Gibson McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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| George Gibson McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: George Gibson McMurtry (November 6, 1876 – November 22, 1958) was a United States Army officer, a Medal of Honor recipient and a Harvard Law-educated Wall Street lawyer. He first served in the Army as a member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. He received the Medal of Honor as the executive officer of the Lost Battalion during World War I. December 16, 1903, he married Mabel C. Post on Long Island. He was a member of Bar Harbor Club, Pot & Kettle Club. Tombstone in Ledgelawn Cemetery. [show more] | |||
| David Strout Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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| David Strout Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Roosevelt - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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| Roosevelt - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), born 1/30/1882, served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death on 4/12/1945. He wrote letters now in the collection of the Great Harbor Maritime Museum about a pair of binoculars, also in the collection at GHMM. | ||
| Morse - Fred W. Morse Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Morse - Fred W. Morse Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Stanley - Lena (Stanley) Bryant (1870-1893) Islesford Historical Society |
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| Stanley - Lena (Stanley) Bryant (1870-1893) Islesford Historical Society Description: July 11, 1870 - October 28, 1993 | ||||
| Bryant - Ralph A. Bryant (1892-1982) Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Bryant - Ralph A. Bryant (1892-1982) Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Woodlawn Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Woodlawn Islesford Historical Society Description: The Woodlawn Inn was built by George Henry Fernald for George and Edna Gilley, circa 1893. After Edna's death it was closed in 1909. James Ray and Ada Dwelley reopened the inn in 1911 and ran it for over 40 years. | ||||
| Hadlock - Col William E. Hadlock Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Hadlock - Col William E. Hadlock Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Young - Lulu Stewart Young (1874 - 1956) Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Young - Lulu Stewart Young (1874 - 1956) Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Phippen - Fred Poag Phippen Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Phippen - Fred Poag Phippen Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Phippen House Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Phippen House Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Hadlock - Fannie Hadlock Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Hadlock - Fannie Hadlock Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Life Saving Station Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Life Saving Station Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| Colby - Gaile Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Colby - Gaile Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Gaile Colby is a life-long resident of Great Cranberry Island. (This photograph was taken by Bar Harbor photojournalist Rebecca Buyers-Basso as part of a 2009 Photo Journalism project on GCI - 2013.238.1933.) | |||
| Nelson - Carl Gustav (1898-1988) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nelson - Carl Gustav (1898-1988) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Carl G. Nelson, born in Sweden in 1898, came to the United States when he was five-years-old. A part-time resident of Cranberry Isles for 21-years and a full-time resident for 19-years following his retirement from teaching in Boston, he died Aug. 6, 1988, at the age of 91. Carl Nelson was a professional teaching artist. After retiring at 71, he bought a piece of land and settled in a house on Great Cranberry. He called his little estate "Tosh Park", Nelson is noted for his beautiful pen and inks, oils, casein paintings and handsome linoleum cuts. His work is currently represented in museums, gallerys, universities and both government and private collections. He has a long list of exhibitions to his credit at the Whitney Museum Biennials, Chicago Art Institute, Institute of Contemporary Art and the American Federation of the Arts to name oniy a few. He has had many one-man shows in New York, Boston, Cambridge, Fitchburg, Mass., and Atlanta. His works have also been reproduced in a number of books — from Herbert Agar's "Land of the Free", in 1935 to "American Drawings; Drawings of the Masters" by Bartlett H. Hayes in 1975. The documentary film "Of Endless Wonder" was made in 1969 by Betsy Seigal and David Westphall of Brandeis. The artist was born in Sweden, studied at the Art Student's League in New York, was a Tiffany Foundation scholar, and graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. [show more] | ||
| Preble - William Pitt (1811-1905) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble - William Pitt (1811-1905) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) descended from one of seven Preble brothers who emigrated from England to Portland in the 17th century. He was the son of the Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper. In 1830, Preble moved to Great Cranberry Island as a school teacher, after marrying the widow Abigail Cobb Hadlock Preble in 1839 and starting their family, he became a church elder, selectman, justice of the peace, Notary Public, gentleman farmer, tax appraiser, postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder, ship owner, and shipwreck appraiser. Preble was the second owner of the Preble House (now Macfarlan house), having married Abigail Hadlock Spurling, the widowed sister of the first owner in 1839, and then marrying the first owner's widowed daughter, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford, in 1875. Preble was the step-father of Sammy Sanford who sued him in later life. [show more] | |||
| Preble - Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling (1808-1874) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble - Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling (1808-1874) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Abigail was the daughter of Samuel & Sarah (Polly) (Manchester) Hadlock, of Islesford. She was a sister of the adventurous showman memorialized by author Rachel Field, Samuel Hadlock, Jr.. In 1825, she married Samuel Spurling (b. 4 Dec 1795, drowned 20 Oct 1837). When Sam Spurling died she was left with five children: Samuel Hadlock (b. 23 Jan 1827, d. 1895 in CA) Zulma Mills (b. 14 Oct 1831, d. ?); Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Andrew Barclay (b. 25 Mar 1833, d. 22 Aug 1906); Sarah Hadlock (b. 20 Jun 1835, d. 9 Jun 1919); Abigail Cobb (b. 29 Sep 1837, d. 28 Jul 1860). The widowed Abigail married her neighbor William Pitt Preble in 1839. Together they had seven more children (two died in infancy): William Henry (b. 1840); Wilhelmina Celeste Preble (b. 1842); Eunice C. Preble (b. 1844); Charles E. Preble (b: ABT 1847); Frances Almira Preble (b: 1849); Eber C. Preble (b: 1852); Eber M. Preble (b. 1855), As a 19th-century woman, Abigail is less visible in the historical record than her husband, but GCIHS collections show that Abigail supervised the Preble family and farm, and paid the household bills. As the first president of the Cranberry Isles Benevolent Sewing Circle, later known as Ladies Aid, Abigail was the driving force behind securing funds for construction of the Island's first church, the Union Meeting House. The church was dedicated in 1866; it cost $3,200. Abigail was not immune to the hardships of her times. She lost two infant sons and saw her eldest son off to live in California during the gold rush of 1849. Abigail Preble died at age 66 in 1874; her husband lived another 21 years. [show more] | |||
| Preble - Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford (1826-1898) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble - Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford (1826-1898) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Jane Matilda (Hadlock) (Sanford) Preble m. 1st George E. Sanford, March 1843. m. 2nd Wm. P. Preble, 1875. Jane was born in Paris, France, the daughter of the adventurous showman Samuel Hadlock, Jr. of Cranberry Isles, and Dorothea Albertina Wilhelmina Celeste Russ, the "Prussian Lady", for whom the big house later called Preble House was originally built. Jane Matilda had three children with George E. Sanford (1812-1873): Albertina A. (1842-1867; Samuel C., (1852-1933); Dorothea R. (1862-1899). The widow Jane Matilda Sanford then married William P. Preble in 1875. She was the third Hadlock to reside in the Preble House: first the Captain himself, followed by Abigail C. Hadlock Spurling Preble (William Preble's 1st wife). Jane Matilda Hadlock came to the house as an infant and returned as its mistress at age 49. [show more] | |||
| Sanford - Samuel "Sammy" Clark (1852-1933) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sanford - Samuel "Sammy" Clark (1852-1933) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Samuel Clark "Sammy" Sanford (1852-1933) was the son of Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford and George E. Sanford. As an adult, after his widowed mother married William Pitt Preble, Sammy lived in a tiny cabin near his step-father's house on Preble Cove. He met the author Rachel Field there and told her the story of his grandfather, Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., upon whom Field based her novel, "God's Pocket". In later life Sammy sued his step-father Preble for payment for services due. When the Shaw's purchased Sanford's cabin they gave him life tenancy. [show more] |