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| Watson - Viola Helen (Benson) Watson (1859-1940) Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Watson - Viola Helen (Benson) Watson (1859-1940) Tremont Historical Society Description: Viola Benson was born and raised in Tremont, Bernard. She married Willis B. Watson 1881-10-12 in Boston, MA. She was a talented photographer in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Her collection of 250 glass plate negatives was donated to the Tremont Historical Society. These negatives document many places in the Tremont area. | ||||
| Watson - Willis B. Watson (1859 - 1928) Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Watson - Willis B. Watson (1859 - 1928) Tremont Historical Society Description: Willis B. Watson MD was a long time resident of Bernard, He was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He was a businessman who built a community building that housed a country store, and the Town Hall. He married Viola Benson 1881-10-12 in Boston, MA. | ||
| Moore - Ruth Moore (1903-1989) Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Moore - Ruth Moore (1903-1989) Tremont Historical Society Description: Ruth Moore, Maine author, lived and worked in Bass Harbor from 1947-1989. | ||||
| Trask - Esther (Moore) Trask (1909-2002) Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Trask - Esther (Moore) Trask (1909-2002) Tremont Historical Society Description: Esther Moore Trask was born on Gotts Island, attended Gotts Elementary School, Pemetic High School and the University of Maine at Orono. Married Charles Orville Trask. Esther was the Ruth Moore's closest younger sister. | ||||
| Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Parker - Letitia A. Parker Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Parker - Letitia A. Parker Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Sister of James Parker. Collection contains letters written by James to Letitia. | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Hadlock - Fannie Hadlock Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Hadlock - Fannie Hadlock 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] |